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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
of personalized medicine into clinical practice. Why does it seem that science is often so far ahead of practice in the medical field? Science has moved especially quickly in the last five years with the completion of the Human Genome... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
and life-skills organization serving foster youth and youth aging out of care). Our discussions about leadership and ethics—in LEAD, LCA, ALD, Managing Human Capital, and the Moral Leader, and outside those classes—are very relevant in my... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that we aren’t using the crisis to... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
them in their home, meeting their family.” That human connection, she says, is often valued above the financial incentive in Cuba. Gordon gives an example: When hiring a group of economists from the University of Havana for a consulting... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
we collectively use them, and that also have no natural limits on how much you can use them—things like computation, communication, biotechnology, renewable energy, and energy storage. “The environment and human well-being are way bigger... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
Abramson. After she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford, a Fulbright Scholarship took her to the London School of Economics to study the implications of the Human Genome Project. While an associate at BCG in New York, she created a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
imperative. (photograph by Jamie Tanaka) "At IBM," Gerstner said at the ceremony, "we're diverse by design, not mandate. With customers in more than 160 countries, our workforce has to reflect the rich array of cultures, perspectives, and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
"don't meet everyone's definition of environmental friendliness." Says Johnson, "We're making tough decisions all the time that weigh the human positives of our products against their potential environmental impact," he says. "The best... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
attitude, and I think it was directly attributable to the presence of minorities and women in the class. They were really pioneers, and I think they made the whole school a more human place." One of those "pioneers," Eve Benton, currently... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
essentially is the gathering of the global community to discuss climate. I think all those things combined with the experience that humans are having, living in the world with changing weather patterns, with rising sea levels and changing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
deepest human needs. The author suggests thinking like an entrepreneur as a way to improve one’s business, life, and relationships. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
all saying, “Oh, my gosh. This is really hard.” I certainly hope there is going to be more thinking about the role of the teacher and the role that technology can play in personalizing the content. Helping students develop resiliency and empathy—things that View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
was calling on Anna behind you.” Al Hauf, class year is 1973. I think it was the first year—we had all those cases every night. And I’d figured out what I couldn’t do was do all of them every night. So I decided which ones I wouldn’t do. I think it was a View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
may end up feeling that executives from the other company have taken over. All of these human forces can destroy the potential economic value of the merger." Beer suggests that cross-company task forces be established to design the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
four adventurous kids across all seven colors of an amazing rainbow to see how all colors stand and shine better together. We learn from nature that our own Human Rainbow is much the same because: With our own special mix of colors and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
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The Wise Men
managerial demands of the war had prompted new courses in, and research emphasis on, human relations and control. Commensurately, the School began to boost its faculty (it had 98 members in 1946). By 1950, HBS was a commanding presence in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Rytis Vitkauskas (MBA 2008) Target Global Leaving the Party Early Over the course of 20 years in venture capital, there are many that got away (Twitter, Capital IQ, Adaptive Insights, and The RealReal, to name a few). However, one repeatedly bubbles up. In 2002 we... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
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Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
me is the discovery and learning of the people, because I believe any destination is different. It's because of the human creation of what people living there have done with the natural environment they are given. And so I always want to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
(another form of entertainment) and in games and sports. Edison’s electric lamp, brighter and better than gas, oil, or candles, which was supposed to lead men and women to the library, merely lures human moths to Main Street. From Chapter... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Both personally and professionally, right? So I wonder, where do you see opportunity and what gives you hope? TS: Yeah. What gives me hope is my great confidence in human ingenuity and innovation and capitalist incentive that will reward... View Details